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Moscow Calling · Gorky Park

Moscow Calling · Gorky Park
EXERCISE 12 OF 27
Groove H
94 / 124 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, OUTRO 2
PART D
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesKDEAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Moscow Calling on drums

124 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
4:55
DIFFICULTY
48/100

snare through bars 2-3, toms through bars 4-5, hi-hat through bars 6-55, snare through bars 56-57, toms through bars 58-59 and hi-hat through bars 60-120, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 11 and 15, and 39 more places -- 34.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Moscow Calling -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 21, 41, 52, 53, 56, 57 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- E, D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-48 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part E and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Moscow Calling?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Moscow Calling hard to play on drums?

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 4:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Moscow Calling?

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 21, 41, 52, 53, 56, 57 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED